psychoneurotic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of psychoneurotic
First recorded in 1900–05; psycho- + neurotic 1
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Her use of bold 1970s-inspired trippy straight lines and hippie flowers reflects in many ways the push-pull of a scientist undergoing a psychoneurotic fantasy.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2011
The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac.
From Time Magazine Archive
Common colds, minor injuries, gastrointestinal upsets, back pain, arthritis and psychoneurotic anxiety states account for the vast majority of visits to clinics and doctors' offices.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scarcely disguised locale is the New York summer resort of Fire Island, but the cast of psychoneurotic summer people and scurvy natives needs to be taken with a pinch of salt water.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is a mild psychoneurotic type, exhibiting under stress unusual mental phenomena.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy
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